How Healthcare is SUPPOSED to work

All of you posting these rubbish comments about how socialized medicine has failed...thousands of times a day, across the world, across the border from you, for that matter, it does just the opposite. Are there waiting lists? Yes; people are triaged based on urgency. If you need a triple bypass to not die the day after tomorrow, you get first in line. Got a non-metastasizing cancerous tumor controlled by chemo? We gotta postpone you for this other person's liver transplant.

We pay for all medical services - or nearly all - through our taxes. The pooled taxes of tens of millions of Canadians go into a medical system under constant evolution and expansion to meet the needs of the population - in multiple languages, cultures, and free of direct charge to the public.

See, when you don't spend most of your budget making sure you can blow the most stuff up, you can actually afford to provide taxpayer-sponsored health care to absolutely everyone; no one gets priority over anyone else because of race, political status, religion...just who needs fixing the most badly the soonest. Elective surgery waiting lists are longer, but again, that face-lift is going to have to wait longer than that poor b@stard's kidney stones.

The system runs over-budget? Yep...because sometimes we prioritize the wrong things in the budget, or sometimes pandemics happen. And the system gets stretched to the breaking point...but the center holds...our Covid-19 numbers are NOTHING compared to yours; our testing and vaccination programs organized according to demographic need and not according to political whim; our leaders own up when they make mistakes, and face the consequences. When was the last time anyone on the American Right was able to do the same?

Socialized medicine WORKS. It's not making anyone dependant on the system - IT MEANS THEY GET THE MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS THEIR TAXES PAY FOR!

If your taxes don't go toward helping you when life rolls you over and plays hide the knish with your beer can koozie, what in the hell is the point of PAYING taxes?

I don't DEPEND on the government to survive; but when I can't stand up on my own two feet because I'm sick, because the economy tanked and I'm out of work, or if some unforeseen tragedy happens, I'm sure as hell glad to know that I CAN depend on my Government to help ME out.

Who does YOUR government bail out, again, during times of national crisis? Oh yeah, that's right: The Stock Market, Corporate interests, and Banks.

At a certain point the government will have to decide who to deny medial services to, if there's a $30,000 treatment, or $300,000 treatment with a high enough demand. Now compound that with the number of third world "pioneers", your country and EU has allowed in, who contribute very little, with women staying at home to do nothing but breed beyond western norms to add further strain on the system. Where's that money going to come from? The quality of services and treatment will be reduced next time you need them.
Why would you want to be dependent on government? Why give them total control over your health. Your health and keeping yourself healthy is your responsibility.

You really are a sick person. I blame the lack of socialized medicine.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/08/do-not-resuscitate-orders-caused-panic-uk-truth